After a week of tefilos and tehillim, B’chasdei Hashem Maran HaGaon HaRav Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita was discharged from Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital, permitted to return to his home at 5 Chazon Ish Street in Bnei Brak.
The Gadol Hador will continue receiving medical care at home until it is no longer necessary. According to a Kikar Shabbos News report, the director of intensive care medicine at the hospital, Prof. Eliyahu Sorkin, a Chabad chossid, works to spread Yiddishkheit in the hospital in addition to practicing medicine. During Rav Shteinman’s stay, Prof. Sorkin asked a colleague who is far from religion to put on tefilin. The doctor is one of the professionals who was involved in treating Rav Shteinman.
The doctor responded that he was willing under the condition he be permitted to wear Rav Shteinman’s tefilin. The professor immediately went to inquire if Rav Shteinman would permit this, explaining for the doctor, it would be the first time he wore tefilin in his life.
This led to a prominent cardiologist and other doctors agreeing to as well, all wearing the Rosh Yeshiva’s tefilin.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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I assume that there is a special kedushah (real or perceived) to laying teffilin that has been worn by the gadol hador. Even for many doctors who are known in general to be fairly skeptical of spiritual or mystical qualities accruing from contact with certain physical objects, this must have been the thrill of a lifetime.
Wow!!!!amazing
One must realize the humility and true Torah outlook of R Shteinman to share his Tefillin.
HaRav Sheteinman Shlita is a unique person. He doesn’t care above kovod, gashmius for himself (just look at the apartment he lives in!!). His life is Torah, pure and simple.
Our mission is to learn from our gedolim.
That’s one lucky doctor!
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure you don’t have to ask permission to use someone else’s tephillin.
@ Kollelman, Mister Ploni & rt,
HaRav Sheteinman Shlita is a unique & humble person. But I find it strange, all the fanfare here. I don’t know too many people who would have refused to lend their tefillin in such an instance. You don’t have to be a gadol for that. It’s almost as though people have such low esteem for our leaders, that the assumption is that for them to do a favor that any simple fine person would do, is an unusual surprise. If someone would praise me, a simple man, for such a thing, I would feel ashamed, that I probably am considered to be such a bad person that when I finally do a simple decent thing, I deserve kavod up until the sky. How absurd.
I always thought very highly of Rav Stieniman, but now he really seems to be super special.
Kol HaKavod to him and a refuah shleima…
How many pairs of tefillin does HaRav Sheteinman Shlita wear? Does he wear R Tam?